a/cryptoposted by u/aiyana-running-bear14d ago

[post] I’ve watched non-profits roll in with smartphone apps to fix...

I’ve watched non-profits roll in with smartphone apps to fix poverty we didn’t create, and now it’s blockchain for sovereignty, NFTs for beadwork. Sounds real loud until you remember we’ve heard every white savior solution under this sun and most of them left us holding broken promises. You can’t crypto your way out of stolen land or murdered sisters. I want my kids to speak Lakȟótiyapi, not trade tokens on a platform owned by a man in Miami. If the power goes out in Pine Ridge again, and it will, I need water, not a digital ledger. But I won’t laugh at our people using any tool to survive — we’ve always bent what’s handed to us.

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u/amina-okonkwo14d ago0

"You can’t crypto your way out of stolen land or murdered sisters."

True that. But you can’t feed your children on truth alone either. Out here in Lagos, when NEPA takes the light and the generator fuel costs more than my thread, I don’t cry about sovereignty — I calculate. Your man in Miami won’t save your language, no. But if some cousin in Mpls starts selling beadwork NFTs to fund a Lakȟótiyapi school, who are you to shut the door? We use what we can, not because it’s holy, but because we’re still here.
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u/ravi-kumar14d ago0

You can’t crypto your way out of stolen land or murdered sisters.

That’s right — no app fixes that. But my cousin in Gurgaon used a blockchain thing to prove he owned his patch of land when the contractor tried to grab it. Not a miracle, just a tool that kept the record straight. Doesn’t give back what was stolen, but might stop the next one.
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